Definitions that throw us, Canadian agricultural machinery manufacturers in disorder disorders

Written by Ed White

Regina, Saskatchewan (Reuters) – throughout the last farm exhibition in Canada, the equipment sales representative struggled to swing with farmers who are concerned about the tariff.

With some gatherings that cost more than $ 800,000, the sudden high prices of customs tariffs will be a success that cannot take most of the farm budgets easily.

Canada was smoking the extensive global definitions of the Trump administration on April 2, but it faces a tariff for steel and aluminum exports to the United States as well as cars inconsistent with the United States, Mexico and Cananga agreement on trade.

As of Friday, Canadian farmers said they are unclear whether agricultural equipment is subject to reprisal duties or definitions in Canada. It may take weeks to count the details.

Meanwhile, farmers ’appetite has declined to combine combining combining agricultural equipment and other agricultural equipment, and manufacturers decline.

In March, Case IH, a agricultural equipment manufacturing company based in Racine, Wisconsin, owned by Global Giant CNH, has notified hundreds of workers in Northern Dakota and Minnesota from workers’ demobilization. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Farmers and sales representatives said in the interviews that uncertainty frightens farmers from buying imported equipment from the United States.

In Saskatchewan, the Canadian province in which a lot of spring wheat is grown in the country, Canola and Dorum are grown for export, the farmers will be very careful about the spending of capital, said Bill Birelski, president of the Agricultural Producers Association in Saskatchewan, with the settlement of thousands of members, and was also gathering Green John.

Elsewhere inside the showroom at the exhibition, farmers kicked tires and tracks of harvesting, seeds, machine guns and machine guns who like to buy them, but a few of them did so.

The manufacturers, too, were struggling with fears of falling into the wrong side of the customs tariff.

“We have a lot of balls in the air at the present time and we don’t really know where to land,” said Derek Molnar, Marketing Director of Rockpicker Degelman Industries.

Since the purchase of machines that are often negotiated for months reaches a year or more before delivery, the risks that the main definitions can surpass over a product when they reach a very expensive matter.

“We have retreated personally” when purchasing new farm machines, “said Gonter Joshum, a Manitoba farmer. “We decided to stick to our collection for a longer period.”

Jochum, like most farmers, buys machines from all over the world: Clas combines a made in Germany and the United States; American -made AGCO tractors and cases of cases; Canadian seeds Burgulte.